Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers.
1
He would only unite with the poor, propertyless peasants.
2
To tell the truth of him,-thoughhe was not absolutely penniless, he was altogether propertyless.
3
An uneducated, underbred, and underfed propertyless man is a man who has lost the possibility of liberty.
4
In the early 19th century, the same state constitutional conventions that gave the vote to propertyless white men disenfranchised free Blacks.